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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 3K189: Power of Three

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“Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.”

I was talking to someone recently who had been evaluating a new job.  He would be joining a venture capital partnership.  He was asking me about how to discern whether or not the firm would be good for him.  I mentioned to him the “Power of Three”.  He asked me, “What is that?”.  I told him that for whatever organization or company he was considering that he need to be sure that he “fell in love” with at least three of the people with whom he would be working closely.  Too many times I have seen people change jobs because they fall for the one person who might be their new boss, the person recruiting them or a co-worker, only to find that once they joined the company that the really didn’t like the other people. And guess what?  It didn’t work out nor end well.  So, how to mitigate this from happening again? Be sure that there are a minimum of three people whom you would say, “I am going to love working with them.”

The power of three.  Yes, we have that going for us too.  We can fall in love with The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.  They are the only Three we need.

Reference: Ephesians 2:18 (New Living Translation)